Scrapping the tax code

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Column by Bob Goodlatte With spring under way, warmer weather is returning, the days are growing longer, and everything is in bloom. Unfortunately, the arrival of spring also kicks off a second and largely unwelcomed season. This season is marked by piles of forms, confusing instructions, and the prospect of turning your hard-earned money over…

WDDI earns Main Street designation

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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. has been accredited as a 2008 National Main Street Program. WDDI learned of the designation on Monday. The development organization joins a list of more than 675 downtown-revitalization programs earning the distinction from the National Trust Main Street Center. WDDI’s performance was evaluated by Virginia Main…

Leitao looks ahead to ’08-’09

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with UVa. basketball coach Dave Leitao. Show Length: 11:20. Eleventh in scoring defense. Eleventh in field-goal-percentage defense. Eleventh in three-point-percentage defense. Eleventh in steals. Twelth in blocked shots. It’s hard to win when you can’t stop the other team from scoring. This…

Protecting our children

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Column by Bob Goodlatte It has become almost commonplace to turn on the evening news or visit an online news source and see the headlines detailing a terrible crime involving a child. While most of us shudder at the thought of a child being harmed, each year hundreds of thousands of children are victims of…

Moran addresses run at governor nomination

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Look at the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial race one way, and it looks an awful lot like the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race. You’ve got two candidates in both who are perceived as being basically dead-even right now who you have to assume will fight to the death for the…

Ends around

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia football coach Al Groh talk about tight end John Phillips. Show Length: 6:18. Tom Santi – gone. Jonathan Stupar – gone. Seventy-six catches, 777 yards, five touchdowns – gone. One tight end who caught a pass returns for Virginia in 2008. And…

No repeat of D.C. sniper case here

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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I think we learned yesterday that we can rest assured that our law-enforcement folks are going to keep us safe no matter what. “We had one here in Waynesboro,” Waynesboro police chief Doug Davis told me, referring to the shootings reported overnight Wednesday and Thursday on Interstate…

One suspect in custody in shootings

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] An Afton teen in custody in connection with two shootings in Waynesboro early Thursday morning is considered a suspect in a series of shootings that were reported along a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. Slade Woodson, 19, was taken into custody upon the execution of a search…

It’s next year at UVa., Tech

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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Was it really so bad that Virginia and Virginia Tech both lost Wednesday night? Um … Well, consider UVa. coach Dave Leitao’s response to comments from Bradley guard Jeremy Crouch, who suggested that the Braves were able to confuse the Cavs defense in their 96-85…